南方习俗英语

China South Spring Festival Folk Custom

中国民间有“开门爆竹”一说。即在新的一年到来之际，家家户户开门的第一件事就是燃放爆竹，以哔哔叭叭的爆竹声除旧迎新。爆竹是中国特产，亦称“爆仗”、“炮仗”、“鞭炮”。

Spring Festival will come, the thing north and south, Spring Festival foodstuff, customs, each have exquisite. Northerners generally eat dumplings, noodles and rice cakes. Southern universal custom is to eat dumplings, noodles and joint rice cakes, jiangsu and living etc. Ground balls, or Fried junior or boil; In zhangzhou people eat raw garlic, junior morning sausage and preserved egg, Chaozhou, guangdong people eat local characteristic of junior corrosion circle ";" The hui people eat noodles and the first month stew, second day fang food dumplings, Style chicken served, brew tofu, dumplings, oil pile is zhuang people, such as the Spring Festival foodstuff.Although big Chinese New Year, all around the custom of very much the same, but the difference in fine point, facilities or some, we'll see, southern rural years how lead. Dedusting, general from the lunar twenty-five beginning, every family began to house outside for quite a thorough cleaning, every household will surely gets a field, lane inside and new, with the newest appearance welcome New Year, do not have a Chinese New Year meteorological.For the orange, the south, especially in guangdong, hainan area during Chinese New Year, people is to home the top orange, is known as the "for orange", because "orange" and "ji" homophonic. So every family can buy basin orange, or plunge into good bundles of orange, orange placed in the sitting room, general basin of some other peoples will be in the basin pasted red paper of "ji" word in black.Spring Festival couplet, 30, every family out early buy good Spring Festival couplets and or the paper, self-provided inconsequence ink, the spot usual the self-established or choose good write couplet, such as ink dries took to stick. Spring Festival couplets content often in the hair house amass and auspicious festive primarily. Besides, people will still labeled with various pictures, home by these couplets, posters decorate new. Of course keeper is an indispensable redneck treasure, banish evil spirit is meant to suppress fierce evil, bless peace, often please keeper is generally QinShuBao and WeiChiJingDe.Worshipping, south in many areas, eat meal before, should first worship ancestor-worship first, people will start to give worship to the father, father hall or in his home, light a candle, and burn delicious, place on substantial dishes, from home the bearers of the parents to take the lead, the LieZuLieZong bow down to kowtow to burn incense. Respectfully requests, and praying fathers come to enjoy the family size peace, prosperity. In some places, still can give a LieZuLieZong burning gold foil paper. Later, fireworks, numbering already prepared began to eat meal.The reunion dinner, have a family reunion eat meal is very important thing, outerly workers, regardless of distance, Chinese New Year will try to get home and family reunion. Eve is very exquisite, southern eve generally does not eat dumplings, some places eat rice cakes, In fujian, in some areas, people eat "jade Angle" (or esculenta schott Angle) instead of dumplings, jade Angle and dumplings addition, but not use flour to make skin, but using tapioca starch or sweet potato powder, or tapioca starch and sweet potato powder insecticides and used instead of before New Year without ancestors warmth-loving creature pack dumpling of flour, now some place called again call pachyrhizus kit: But the area of jiangsu, dining table usually there will be KouRou, some places, 30 night, people will Fried melon seeds, while in peacetime is not night Fried melon seeds. Usually eve chicken, duck, goose is little not, still can have squid leeks, said long long, annual have fish. Still can have carrots and peppers, says life thriving...Setting off firecrackers, on New Year's day, 12 o 'clock, the village is produced crackling rang with firecrackers, pin-points of firecrackers gradually thick up and continuing until big, bright, it is very busy. In the area of jiangsu, Spring Festival, people put off firecrackers called "rise", meaning "rise successively". In guangdong, hainan area, put finish off firecrackers, children must speak cobolli gigli words, to get a good CaiTou, adult? And where you would walk, holding the child's head gently upwards ye, meaning "annual taller" hope children in the New Year, long head.ShouSui, New Year's eve, eat meal, put finish off firecrackers, and every family began to ShouSui. Everybody is surrounded sit together, or playing CARDS, or playing mahjong, or chat, or watching TV. And children is to sit still, they running up and down, HuPengHuanYou, in the courtyard, into the open play, light firecrackers fireworks. Anyhow, people laughing every glittering moaned, quite is lively. By junior after finish firecrackers put elders in turn salute, elders are among the younger generation are "lucky money". These early years, people begin preparations for the offerings. In the fifth, place on a candle on clear fruit, cookies, candy, etc, pour on green tea, meet god meet god blessed, pray for auspicious. Before sleeping, children put "lucky money" in under the pillow or clothes pocket.New Year's eve late, hainan and chaoshan district, the farmer's water jar wants storage full of water, MiGang shall be filled in meters, lights shall not be quenched, to symbolize the "happiness", "not more every year DuanChui" good omen.On New Year's day, in the early morning, the last night adults closed door to open, meaning chun connect blessing, a thriving business. It is the day the children very happy, because finally can wear new clothes, and friends to play around. In a day, adults will specially told the children speak good words, words, not disorderly speak cobolli gigli ask, do not disorderly speak, and the Spring Festival in joy auspicious and add a grave solemn. On New Year's day morning, in the south, in some areas, is not to kill, and hainan chaoshan area, this morning people be vegetarian, often with celery, eggplant, onion, etc.Chinese New Year, from kicks off, people started to walk street, each other best wear lane. Annual zhengzhou start, marry my daughter started to take son-in-law, and children discotheque happy New Year. Third, fourth, people began to home fete relatives and friends.Lion dancing, during the Spring Festival, people celebrate the lion is one way. Southern lion dances in guangdong popular, so commonly called again guangdong lion. Guangdong lion was by one lion lion head, tail and one one or two wear FoMian with with big lion, play a lion, single dance etc. WuShiZhe wear assorted knickerbockers, and dressed in dense buttons of tang lantern sleeve unlined upper garment or vest.